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THE VAMPIRE CAT 



A PLAY IN ONE ACT FROM 
THE JAPANESE LEGEND 

OF 
THE NABESHIMA CAT 



BY 

GERARD VAN ETTEN 



COPYRIGHT, 1918 

BY 
THE DRAMATIC 
PUBLISHING COMPANY 



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CAST OF CHARACTERS 

Prince Hizen, Lord of Nabeshima 

bljzen, his chief councillor 

RuiTEN, A PRIEST 

Ito Soda, a common soldier 

Kashiku, a maid 

o toyo, wife of the prince 

TIME : Medieval Japan. — 

SCENE : The room of O Toyo in the palace. 

TIME OF ACTION : Between 10 and 12 p. m. 

Note. — According to the old Japanese legend, the soul 
of a cat can enter a human being. 



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THE VAMPIRE CAT 

Scene. At R. is a dressing tabic, upon it a steel 
mirror, toilet articles, and tzvo lighted candles with ornate 
shades. R. U. a section of shoji leads to another room, 
this section is now closed. At R. C. a large section of 
shoji'is open, giving a view of the garden. To the R. of 
this entrance is a small shrine and Buddha. At L. of the 
room is a sleeping mat and head rest. By the head rest a 
lantern, now unlighted. Dozvn L. is an open section of 
shoji leading to the Prince's apartments. Just above it 
stands a screen. As the curtain rises the Prince is stand- 
ing R. C. looking out into the garden. Ruiten is down R. 
and Buzen slightly above him. Buzen crosses L.] 

Prince. [Comes dozvn between Ruiten and Buzen.] 

Settle for me tonight 

My sicknesses and my fears — 

[To Buzen.] Settle them for me, 

Sir Buzen, councillor crafty. 

[To Ruiten.] Settle them for me, 

Priest Ruiten, the prayerful. 
Ruiten. So are we trying in all ways 

Thy pain to relieve 

Yet nought seems availing. 
Prince. Wracked is my body 

With tortures unending 

Born of the dreams 

That are surging forever 

Backward and forward 

Thru my brain, weary. 
Buzen. [Indicating door L.~\ Around thy bed each 
night 

Have I placed thy samurai 

In number one hundred 

To guard thy sleep — 
Ruiten. Zealously have I prayed 

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4 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

In the temple called "Miyo In," 

And during the night hours 

Have knelt at thy house shrine 

Praying to Buddha, the lord of the world. 
Prince. Yet have I not slept 

Entirely untortured. 

Slow are thy prayers 

In fruit bearing. 
Ruiten. Slow because contending with evil — 
[Approaches Prince.'] 

With evil in form strange and subtle. 

Over this house hangs a spirit 

Ne'er resting and ready always for dire deeds. 
Prince. Such a spirit there must be — but what? 
Ruiten. Evil takes many forms but the form of a cat 

Is favored by many devils. 
Prince. [Startled, the others watch him closely.] A 
cat — aye, truly 

And if a cat stalked here 

That evil thing must we kill. 
Ruiten. Yet such is their power malignant 

That they take other forms than the forms of cats — 

Even human forms. 
Prince. Ha ! — And the spirit that visits me ? 

Mayhap that — 

Only twice hath it failed of its visit. 
Buzen. And those lost visits, when ? 
Prince. The last two nights. 

Buzen. [Swelling with pride.] Then, oh Prince, the 
cure may be found. 

Better than prayers is the cure [Eyeing Ruiten.] 

For prayers have not ears — have not eyes — 

Have not weapons — better than prayers is it. 
Prince. Tell me this cure. It is grudged, Sir Priest? 
Ruiten. [Bowing.] A cure for my lord could not be 

grudged. 
Prince. Well spoken. Say on, Sir Buzen. 
Buzen. First I must beg clemency 

For thy hundred samurai 

For faithful they are to the bone, yet — 



THE VAMPIRE CAT 5 

Prince. Yet? Why clemency? For what? 

Buzen. On guard, they slept. 

Prince. Slept? 

Buzen. Aye. Soundly as though deep in saki. 

Prince. And none roused? 

Buzen. They were as dead 

From shortly after the hour of ten 

Until dawning. 

Awakening they knew they had slept 

Yet knew not when the poppy was thrown in their eyes. 

Even as one man none knew 

And were deep amazed and full of shame. 

Each night it was the same. 
Prince. [Angrily.] So, they slept. 

While I, on my couch, 

Through the hours writhed — 

Writhed and twisted — 

Weakening ever — 

Not sleep, yet dreaming — 

Oh, horrible dreams. 
Ruiten. Of what were these horrible dreams ? 

What was their substance? 
Prince. [Mystified at the memory.] There would 
come a soft stealing — 

As of draperies hushed and lifted 

For silence in walking; 

Like soft, silken draperies 

Wrapped about stealthy limbs. 

Then a shape clothed for sleep 

As women are clothed — 

Sinuous and vague in movement, 

Then taking form slowly — 

The form — a lie! — a lie! [Covers his face and goes 
upstage.] 
Ruiten. The form? 
Prince. [Turns.] O Toyo ! 

Ruiten. r Rubbing their hands ■ ] Ah! 
Buzen. l y 

Prince. [Comes down R., Ruiten and Buzen are to- 
gether a little L.] 



6 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

Came she to me — 

Leaned o'er me — 
Caressed me 

Yet soothed not. 

Her lips to mine — 

Her lips but not sweet. 

Then here on my throat 

Would she place them 

And all my life seemed to smother — 

Out of me flowed the life-blood 

In a deep stream 

Like a tide 

Forced by the gods, 

Against its will, 

To flow far away and yet farther. 
Buzen. So does a vampire 

Sucking her victim 

Draw from him 

His blood and his marrow. 
Prince. Guard thy words ! — 

As my strength ebbed 

She drew back 

Red-lipped and smiling, 

Smiling and laughing 

Though her laughter was silent. 

Then with a final shimmer 

Of silent silks she vanished — 

So was it done. 
Ruiten. So always the dream ? 

If dream it were. 
Prince. The dream — I think yet it was a dream- 
So was it always. 
Buzen. But the last two nights ? 
Prince. Came she as usual 

Flowing over the floor 

Like a spectre enrobed 

And beautified. 

But as she bent o'er me 

She paused as if startled 

And, slowly gazing about, 



THE VAMPIRE CAT 7 

Turned and was gone. # 

Last night she paused 

As if speaking to someone 

Though I could see no one. 
Buzen. But the cause of her turning? 
Ruiten. Turned she startled — 

Turned she slowly — 

Turned she wonderingly ? 
Prince. Slowly, as if she felt 

A strange presence. 
Ruiten. Feared she ? 
Prince. She left me. 
Buzen. But trembling or calm ? 
Prince. Calmly, as from a thing hated 

And more powerful than she 

Whom she would not rouse to action. 
Buzen. [Rubbing his hands.] Good. 
Prince. What is good? 
Buzen. That which thou speakest of. 
Prince. How so? 

Buzen. [Comes forward tozvards the Prince.'] It 
proves that I have humbly succeeded — 

[Grudgingly.] Through the help of another, 'tis true — 

But yet succeeded in bringing my lord honorable help. 
Ruiten. Indeed it is so. 
Prince. Say on, very wise councillor. 
Buzen. [Puffing up.] Without more words than are fit 

This then is the way of the cure. 

When long had thine illness ravaged and worn thee 

And many nights had you tossed by weird visions 
enthralled, 

No cures affecting, no prayers availing thee [Glances 
at Ruiten.] 

Then councilled I with thy wise ones — 

And, too, with Priest Ruiten — 
Ruiten. I, you should name first, 

For without my prayers your wisdom was nought. 
Buzen. To continue briefly. 

All our heads together brought no solution — 
Prince. True, true. 



8 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

Buzen. [Bowing.] Humbly I acknowledge my head 

Empty and brainless. 

Yet even from idiots lips 

Wisdom oft falls unexpected 

And therefore more wonderful. 

Now it is told in old tales 

Of how Iyaiyasu met — 
Ruiten. Short, abrupt is thy tale. 
Prince. The cure, Sir Buzen, 

The hour passes. 
Buzen. [Bowing.] I crave honorable leniency. 

To be brief — 
Prince. Aye, brief. 
Buzen. Discouraged and sick at heart 

At the sufferings of my great lord, 

I was retiring to my room 

By way of the garden 

And the hour was the Hour of the Fox. 

I heard a splashing in the pool 

And drawing near 

Saw a young soldier washing. 

I spoke to him asking, 

"Who art thou?" 

"Retainer to my Lord Nabeshima, 

Prince of Hizen," he answered. 

Then talked I with him. Of thy sickness 

We talked. And he was ashamed of thy samurai's 
sleeping. 

He begged to be allowed to guard thy sleep 

Also for, being a common soldier, it was not permitted. 

So earnestly talked he that I promised to consult 

With the other councillors and see what could be done. 

"So tell me your name, young sir," I said. 

"Ito Soda is my name, honorable sir, 

And for your kind words I thank you." 

So I consulted and the result was 

We granted his request. 
Prince. And he, too, has watched the two nights past? 
Ruiten. Aye, and he slept not 

Though the samurai were heavy with sleep- fumes. 



THE VAMPIRE CAT 9 

Buzen. I will tell. 

Ruiten. [Elbows Buzen out of the way and comes 
forward.'] You are honorably hoarse. 

He slept not, as I say — 
Prince. How kept he awake? 

Since many slept spell-bound 

How broke he the spell ? 
Ruiten. With him he brought 

Oiled paper and laid it 

Down on the matting 

Sitting upon it. 

When o'er his eyes sleep stole 

And wearily weighted them 

He drew out his sharp dirk 

And in his thigh thrust it 

By pain driving the poppy fumes off. 

Ever and again he twisted 

The dirk in the raw wound 

And the thick blood-drops 

Soiled not the matting 

Because of the oiled paper. 
Prince. Indeed this is no common soldier, 

This Ito Soda. 
Buzen. Indeed not — 

Ruiten. To continue — [Retires upstage, disgruntled.'] 
Buzen. [Pushing forward.] As I was saying, oh 
Prince, 

His eyes never closed. 

During the Reign of the Rat 

He heard, in this room, O Toyo 

Tossing and moaning 

As if in great fear of something 

She could not escape from. 

Even at the same moment 

As the beginnings of her moanings 

Came a cat-call from the garden — 

Then nearer — then ghostly paddings 

As of padded claws on matting, 

And an evil presence seemed hovering 

And lurking near in the darkness. 



10 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

O Toyo gave a low scream — than all was silence. 

Soon she came stealthily 

Through the shoji — cat-like her step — 

Glassy her eyes — 

Claw-like her hands — 

Bent she over you with curled lips — 

Then she turned, even as you have said, 

And, seeing a waking watcher, 

Left as she came. 
Ruiten. [Comes down.~\ The second night of Ito 
Soda's watching 

She threatened him in low words 

But he made as to stab her 

And she melted before him 

Laughing a little. 

And he heard the rustle of her garments 

As she regained this room 

Though he saw not her passage hither. 
Prince. Thicker with each word the horror about me. 

[Turns away to R.~] Doubts to beliefs — beliefs to 
actions — 

Love unto hate. [Turns to them almost pleadingly, .] 

Tell me it is not O Toyo. 
Buzen. I questioned her maid, Kashiku, 

And found that O Toyo's couch 

Was empty even at the time 

Of the weird visit to thee. 
Prince. [Overzvhelmed.~\ So, it was O Toyo! 
In the soul of a flower, a demon — 

On the sweet lips, poison. 
Buzen. There is only one course — 
Ruiten. The one road — 
Prince. And I take it ! 
Buzen. [Moves toward door L.] The samurai are 

gathered. 
Prince. Summon Ito Soda. [Buzen exits L.] 
Ruiten. Hard is the fate of man 
Here on this dark earth. 
Many the shapes and the shadows 



THE VAMPIRE CAT 11 

Stalking abroad. 

Yet ever the gentle Buddha 

From the Lotus Fields watches 

And guards every life that lives. 
Prince. [Pitts one hand on Ruiten's shoulder. ~\ Priest, 
have not many 

Vampires bleeding them 

And dream it is another thing? 
Ruiten. The soul is often a vampire to the body. 
Prince. And that evil thing must we kill. 
Ito Soda. [Enters L., kneels before the Prince. Ruiten 
takes up R. a little and Buzen re-entering after Ito 
Soda goes up C.] 

Honorable Prince, humbly I answer thy summons. 
Prince. Rise, Ito Soda. 

Faithful beyond words art thou, 

This know I as all hath been told me. 

No longer call thyself a common soldier 

But a samurai of the Prince of Hizen. 

And the two swords will I give thee on the morrow. 
Ito Soda. On my knees I humbly thank thee. [Rises.'] 
Prince. Now time presses. 

O Toyo will be coming 

In from the garden. 

As usual shall the hundred sleepy samurai 

Guard my couch. Let Ito Soda 

Remain here hidden and watchful. 

When O Toyo rises to enter my chamber — 

Your dirk is sharp, Ito Soda ? 
Ito Soda. [Draws dirk.] As a moonbeam on a cold 

night. 
Prince. And you know how to use it. 
Ito Soda. I will place this screen, thus. [Goes to screen 
L. and opens it so as to form a hiding place between 
the sleeping mat and the door L.] 

So will I wait the moment. 
Prince. So be it. It is a good plan 

And on the one road. Let us about it. [Exits L. fol- 
lowed by Buzen and Ruiten. Ito Soda goes be- 



12 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

hind the screen. O Toyo is heard singing in the 
garden.~\ 
O Toyo. [Out side. ~\ Moonlit convulvus 

Through the night hours 
Wan are their faces 
Ghostly sweet. 

Richer by daylight 
Drinking of sunshine 
As thirsty souls drink 
At a shrine. 

Fair are the faces 
Glassed in the quiet pools 
Maidens low-bending 
Vain ones. 

[The singing stops abruptly.'] Kashiku, is not that a 
cat 

Stealing stealthily there? 

She snarls- — quick — [O Toyo enters B. C. quickly and 
very frightened, turns and looks back, hurries 
Kashiku in. Kashiku follows much less dis- 
turbed at any fear of a cat than over her mistress' 
fright.] 
Kashiku. [Shuts the shoji R. C. and comes to O Toyo.] 

You are all atremble. 
O Toyo. Quick, let me be safe in slumber. [Crosses to 

dressing table.] 
Kashiku. [Follows her and attends to her hair while 
O Toyo kneels before the glass.] Several nights 
lately have I heard my lady moaning 

As though even in sleep were she troubled. 

The worry over your honorable lord hath disturbed 
thee. 
O Toyo. Your ears are over keen. 

I am happy when I sleep. 

How can I moan, being happy ? 

You are dull. 



THE VAMPIRE CAT 13 

Kashiku. Perhaps it was the wind or the echo of my 

lord's moaning. 
O Toyo. Moaning or was it singing ? 

I would it were singing 

For singing is sweeter 

On the lips of those dying. 
Kashiku. Dying? 
O Toyo. When those whom we love are passing — 

Even under our hands are passing — 

And our love weans them from life 

And our kisses suck out the blood-life, 

Then would we touch them no more, 

Then would we kiss them no more, 

But a power greater than we 

And a power that we fear 

Forces us on in our love-killing. 
Kashiku. There is in your voice a vibration, as even the 
winds in the pine-tops 

When, in the autumn, they echo the summer's death- 
song ; 

There is in your eyes a strange light as if the soul of 
another 

Looked out from your curtaining lashes and dimmed the 
sweet light there abiding. 

Oh, mistress, surely you are different than what you 
once were. 
O Toyo. [Crosses C. slowly.'] Even now comes the 
hour and the struggle 

And I do the bidding of that which is in me. 

How I hate the feel of his flesh 

Quivering under my lips 

And the loathsome taste of the blood-drops 

Thick on my lips that would soothe him and cannot. 
Kashiku. Can anything soothe more than thy lips, 

More than the lips that love him ? 

I cannot understand the words of your saying. 

You are happy and tearful all in a moment, 

Your soul seems a sky full of sunshine and clouds. 

[Coming to her.] Even now as my hand touches you, 
you are trembling. 



14 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

Is it the cat that crept upon us 

Whose shape still affrights you? 
O Toyo. Thou hast said it — My soul is as thou sayest. 

My dreams are sweet and again bitter. 

Once came a dream horrible above all dreams. 
Kashiku. What dream, my lady? 

O Toyo. The night when you found me there on the 
floor. 

Do you remember? 
Kashiku. Well. You were all distraught and the bosom 
of your gown 

Was torn open and you clutched your throat 

As if you were wounded there. But there was no 
mark. 

And you let wild words fall from your lips 

And none knew their meaning. 
O Toyo. The Prince and I walked in the garden 

And there at the shoji I left him. 

As I entered 

There entered 

With me a spirit 

And its breath fell upon me — 

Dumb my tongue in my mouth 

And frozen my marrow. 

Suddenly it leapt upon me 

And as I fell downward 

Flashed the spirit into mine eyes — 

A cat, two-tailed and hairy — 

And it's teeth sank in my throat here — 

Can you see a mark? [Exposes her throat to 
Kashiku.] 
Kashiku. The skin is as smooth as satin and perfect. 
O Toyo. Then came darkness upon me — and so you 
found me. 

So strong is the dream within me 

I wonder if it be a dream or no. 
Kashiku. You had walked that evening in the garden. 
O Toyo. I had rather dreamed I walked — say I 

dreamed it. 
Kashiku. The Prince was with — 



THE VAMPIRE CAT 15 

O Toyo. Yet it was a dream, question it not. 

I would go to rest peacefully. 

He, too, shall rest peacefully — 

I shall not kiss my lord tonight. [Crosses L.] 
Kashiku. Not kiss him? 
O Toyo. I think not I shall kiss him. 

I would not pain his slumbers — 

He has paled so and his face is so thin. 

In the night he lies like a strong flower 

And a strange flower, bled of its life — 

Like a strong flower weakened. 

And at its sight my dreams are bitter. 

But as I gaze a change comes over all things 

And I hold in my hands a beautiful flower 

Which I kiss with my lips 

Holding my lips long to it, 

Draining its sweetness. 

And a cloud passes over 

And on my lips are clots of blood ! 
Kashiku. Such dreamings are not good. 

I find the silken coverlets tossed in the morning, 

Twisted and thrown about as if you slept ill. 
O Toyo. It is not O Toyo who tosses them — 

It is the dream O Toyo. 
Kashiku. Two nights lately have I imagined you called 
to me 

But entering you were not here — but there with your 
lord soothing his sufferings. 
O Toyo. Drinking at strange fountains and unknown 
springs — 

Drinking of sacred waters sacred to unknown gods. 

And as I drink another life becomes my life 

And he is mine — utterly mine, at last ! 
Kashiku. You frighten me — 
O Toyo. Be not frightened — you have no need. 

Now I shall sleep. 

He, too, is sleeping. Perhaps — perhaps he is suffering. 

Shall I touch him with my hands ? 

Perhaps he is hungry for my kisses — 

Shall I kiss him? 



16 THE VAMPIRE CAT 

Kashiku. It were a fitting thing to kiss thy lord. 

O Toyo. You know not what you say, Kashiku. 

Kashiku. My lady — 

O Toyo. You have not heard me say strange things, 
Kashiku. 

Kashiku. I have heard — 

O Toyo. Nothing. 

Kashiku. Nothing, my lady. 

O Toyo. Put out the lamps. [Kashiku blows out 
candles on dressing table.'] 
Go now, Kashiku, and do you sleep deeply, 
Breathing poppies. 

Kashiku. My lady — 

O Toyo. Go. [Kashiku opens shoji R. and goes out 
shutting it after her. O Toyo crosses, too, and 
lies on the sleeping mat. The room is almost in 
total darkness.] 

O Toyo. I shall kiss him — I shall kiss him! [The 
lantern at the head of the sleeping mat glows more 
and more brightly until a cafs head appears on it. 
At this moment a cat-call comes from the garden. 
(Note. — If these effects cannot be gotten with no 
hint of the ludicrous, have the lantern glow with 
increasing light but use no cat's head or cat call.) 
With the increase of light, O Toyo has begun to 
moan and toss and at the- moment of the cat-call 
she rises as in a trance and goes towards the door 
L. As she passes the screen Ito Soda steps out 
from behind it and plunges his dirk into her back; 
she falls with a little, stifled cry. Instantly, in utter 
darkness, the curtain falls.] 

End of the Play, 



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